Re: Actually, this seems proportionate
Its a lot of victims though. The mindless thug who beats the shit out innocent pub goers at closing time only hurts one person at a time (i'd be happy to see him do some time )
These boys "assaulted" 14000 people. Levels ranging from
- oh ill restore my files from backup
- didnt want anything on that pc anyway
- dammit lost the last years photos again
to:
- there goes my Thesis / years of family photos / all my geneology documents
-all the finance records for my business
etc etc, skies the limit
and just because decryption keys were eventually found , dosent mean people hadnt reformatted by then.
I take your point about the system being to prevent and rehab. Jail may have introduced them to people who would develop their talents. 240 hours Community service seems low though. Its 6 weeks of full time work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
